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REACH Compliance

Reliable in silico tools for the characterization of chemicals and toxicity prediction to help with substance registration for REACH.

The Challenges of REACH Compliance

Registration of chemicals with the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) for European Union (EU) companies manufacturing, importing, or using chemicals in the EU can be stressful and time-consuming.

While REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals) promotes alternative methods for hazard assessment to reduce animal testing, it can be challenging to identify software to predict toxicity endpoints and complete the necessary documentation.

Key challenges include
  • Accurately naming compounds with IUPAC nomenclature
  • Preparing professional reports
  • Predicting toxicological and physicochemical properties

Software Tools for REACH Compliance and Documentation

With more than 25 years of experience in chemistry software and accurate models for the prediction of toxicity endpoints, we facilitate the efficient submission of documentation for REACH compliance.

Molecular illustration packages are essential for drawing accurate chemical structures to ensure documentation is precise and professional.

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ChemSketch™

A chemical drawing package for students, educators, and researchers.

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Quickly find exact IUPAC nomenclature for novel and complex chemical substances using naming software.

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Name™

Generate chemical names according to IUPAC rules, convert chemical names to structures, and handle challenging areas of nomenclature. An essential tool for teaching organic nomenclature.

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Compounds that are not yet authorized by REACH may require toxicity and physiochemical information as part of their regulatory findings. Use chemical-predictive tools to compute logP, pKa, mutagenicity, hERG inhibition, and more. Includes QPRF and QMRF documentation.

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Tox Suite™

Predict toxicity endpoints (hERG inhibition, aquatic toxicity, and irritation, etc.) from structure.

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Customer Reviews
“We use ACD/Name daily to verify the nomenclature of submitted manuscripts.”

Richard J. Smith
Managing Editor, Helvetica Chimica Acta

“ACD/Name was temporarily unavailable for < 1 month when we moved to new PCs; more than 50% of patent attorneys noticed and complained during that time."”

Dave Ennis
AstraZeneca

“The best in silico toxicity software I have used. It was very easy to use, and a lot of information could be obtained.”

Tim Tam
Apotex Pharma

“Spectrus Processor is a really powerful tool for processing NMR, MS, IR, and chromatographic data. It is very user-friendly and intuitive. One of its major strengths is that it is independent of the instrument manufacturer.”

Dr. Rainer Ebel
University of Aberdeen

“This software has all the features that a chemist can dream of to write papers and reports.”

Tilak Bommaraju
New York, USA

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ChemSketch™

A chemical drawing package for students, educators, and researchers.

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Name™

Generate chemical names according to IUPAC rules, convert chemical names to structures, and handle challenging areas of nomenclature. An essential tool for teaching organic nomenclature.

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Tox Suite™

Predict toxicity endpoints (hERG inhibition, aquatic toxicity, and irritation, etc.) from structure.

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